Vito Macchia was born in Brixen (BZ) on February 25, 1983, but grew up in Bitritto, in the province of Bari. In 2009 he took the Master Degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, with specialization in “Industrial Automation”. Master Degree thesis subject was robotics and the thesis title was “Application of HTM in a Computer Vision System for Mobile Robotics – Overview of the emerging HTM Technology”.

From March 2009 to September 2011 he worked as research fellow in the Robotics Research Group (RRG) at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Prof. Bona), funded by the regional project "MacP4Log".

During this period his research was mainly focused on mobile robotics and computer vision, an he gained experience on stereo cameras, omnidirectional cameras and Microsoft Kinect.

Since September of 2011 he is employed as researcher at the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella in the “Handheld and Usability” unity and currently works for the REPLY and WEBINOS projects.